Bilbao set to be overwhelmed by English fans for Europa League final
Uefa and local authorities in Spain are bracing themselves for the arrival of tens of thousands of English fans in Bilbao this month after Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur both reached the Europa League final.
Bilbao, which is hosting the final, has a population of 350,000, similar to Leicester, and the Spanish city will struggle to cope if large numbers of ticketless fans decide to travel to the final on May 21.
Each club will receive an allocation of 15,000 tickets for the match at the San Mamés Stadium, which has a capacity of 53,000.
Fans who travelled to Seville for the 2022 Europa League final between Rangers and Eintracht Frankfurt were heavily critical of the arrangements by the authorities who had to deal with
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